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"CECIL" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the sixth". |
Date "CECIL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Cecil AN object-oriented language combining multi-methods with a classless object model, object-based encapsulation and optional static type checking. It distinguishes between subtyping and code inheritance. Includes both explicit and implicit parameterisation of objects, types, and methods. (ftp://cs.washington.edu/pub/chambers/cecil-spec.ps.Z) ["The Cecil Language: Specification and Rationale", C. Chambers, TR 93-03-05, U Wash (Mar 1993)]. (1994-10-28). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Medicine | Some of the argot names for cocaine: C, Cecil, Coke, dust, happy-dust, heaven-dust, and stardust. . . . . lady snow: cocaine. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CECIL | English | Compact Electronic Components Inspection Laboratory | Electrical Engineering |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: CECIL |
| English words defined with "CECIL": Rhodes scholar. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CECIL": Cecil's Fast, Cottage Countess ♦ happy- dust, heaven-dust ♦ RHODES. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Well, I'll tell you son Due to a Cecil wind, Dystor has vectored us into a 360-tossen of slor traffic. (Airport; writing credit: Arthur Hailey; George Seaton) I am Cecil B. Demented! (Cecil B. DeMented; writing credit: John Waters) I never understood why Cecil hated it so much when it's so good. ('Night Mother; writing credit: Marsha Norman) | |
Tongue Twisters | Meet Sir Cecil Thistlethwaite, the celebrated theological statistician. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Beany and Cecil Meet Billy the Squid (1959) Rt. Honorable Cecil Rhodes (1899) Cecil De Meal (2001) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Pilot Major Cecil Powell and the X-24A on Lakebed. Credit: NASA. |  | Cecil gazed and gazed, awe-stricken and yet fascinated. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Cecil giving Felix the music lesson. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Sir Cecil Spring Rice, British Ambassador, half-length portrait, facing right. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Cecil Lawson, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front] / HH. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mr. Cecil Roy, clearing land at Hazlehurst Farms Inc. near Hazlehurst, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | DeMille, Cecil, house. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Misses Emma Stitt, Virginia Edwards, Cecil L. Jones, and Alice Milburn. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Cecil Raleigh & Seymour Hicks' great English play, Sporting life. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The great ruby Arthur Collins' production ; written by Cecil Raleigh & Henry Hamilton. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Cecil Rhodes | So little done, so much to do. |
| If there be a God, I think he would like me to paint Africa British-Red as possible. | |
George W. Cecil | On the Plains of Hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the Dawn of Victory, sat down to wait, and waiting -- died! |
Richard Cecil | The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time. |
Robert Cecil | Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are. |
| Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Give Cecil Thunder a belt. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Zimbabwe | In 1888, Cecil Rhodes obtained a concession for mineral rights from local chiefs. (references) |
The Bahamas | A coalition of PLP dissidents and former UBP members formed the Free National Movement (FNM) in 1971. Former PLP cabinet minister and member of parliament Hubert Ingraham became leader of the FNM in 1990, upon the death of Sir Cecil Wallace-Whitfield. (references) | |
Zimbabwe | The British South Africa Company was chartered in 1889, and the settlement of Salisbury (now Harare, the capital) was established in 1890. In 1895, the territory was formally named Rhodesia after Cecil Rhodes under the British South Africa Company's administration. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CECIL" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CECIL" is used about 639 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 639 | 10,192 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "CECIL" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Cecil | First name Female | 5,000 | 1,338 |
| Cecil | First name Male | 78,000 | 214 |
| Cecil | Last name | 4,000 | 3,072 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "CECIL" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the sixth". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "CECIL." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Sextus | Male | Ancient Roman | N/A |
| Cecil | Male | English | Sextus |
| Sesto | Male | Italian | Sextus |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| USA | Cecil Bancorp, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Cecil, AL 2. Cecil, AR 3. Cecil, GA (town, FIPS 14192) 4. Cecil, OH (village, FIPS 12700) 5. Cecil, PA 6. Cecil, WI (village, FIPS 13325) |
Expressions using "CECIL": Cecil B. De Mille ♦ Cecil Blount De Mille ♦ Cecil County ♦ Cecil Field Nas ♦ Cecil J. Rhodes ♦ Cecil John Rhodes ♦ Cecil Rhodes ♦ Cecil Scott Forester ♦ Sir David Alexander Cecil Low. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "CECIL": Cecil-Bishop, Cecil-keays, cecil-trained. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
cecil whig | 212 | cecil taylor | 19 |
cecil | 81 | cecil pa | 19 |
cecil community college | 80 | cecil adam | 18 |
cecil county | 61 | cecil whittakers | 17 |
cecil county maryland | 55 | cecil hotel | 16 |
cecil field fl jacksonville nas | 51 | cecil the turtle | 15 |
rhodes cecil | 51 | cecil county raceway | 13 |
beanie and cecil | 48 | cartoon cecil | 13 |
cecil county dragway | 43 | cecil beaton | 13 |
cecil fielder | 42 | cecil county library public | 12 |
beany and cecil | 40 | cecil aldin | 12 |
cecil county public school | 38 | cecil county fair | 12 |
cecil b demille | 33 | cecil collins | 12 |
cecil county md | 30 | cecil brown | 12 |
cecil wisconsin | 29 | cecil county spca | 12 |
cecil county real estate | 27 | cecil whitakers | 11 |
cecil college community county | 26 | cecil dark knight | 11 |
cecil county government | 20 | cecil township | 10 |
cecil b demented | 20 | chuck cecil | 10 |
cecil field | 20 | cecil center commerce | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "CECIL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
French | coco, came, respirette, poudre, neige, blanc. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ecilcay Сесил. (various references) Cecilio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"CECIL" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cacif, Cassil, cecal, Cecco, Cece, ceci, Cecill, Ceecom, Cemil, Cencio, Cesi, Chekol, cicil, Cicli, Cuci, cycil, Ecci, Kecal, Secil. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-i-l" | |
-1 letter: ceil, lice. | |
-2 letters: cel, ice, lei, lie. | |
-3 letters: el, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-i-l" | |
+1 letter: celiac, chicle, cicale, cicely, cilice, circle, cleric, cliche, icicle. | |
+2 letters: bicycle, calcine, calcite, calices, caliche, calicle, celiacs, chalice, chicles, cilices, circled, circler, circles, circlet, clerics, cliched, cliches, clicked, clicker, coeliac, cubicle, culices, cuticle, cyclize, cylices, ecbolic, icicled, icicles, licence. | |
+3 letters: acetylic, aciculae, alchemic, alopecic, bicycled, bicycler, bicycles, biocycle, breccial, calcanei, calcined, calcines, calcites, caliches, calicles, calicoes, calycine, canticle, caulicle, celeriac, celibacy, cephalic, cervical, chaliced, chalices, chemical, choicely, choleric, cicelies, circlers, circlets, clavicle, cleidoic, clerical, clickers, clinched, clincher, clinches, cocklike, coelomic, colicine, complice, cornicle, cresylic, crucible, cubicles, culicine, curlicue, curricle, cuticles, cyclized, cyclizes, delicacy, ecbolics, ecclesia, eclectic, ecliptic, ecocidal, ecologic, electric, elenchic, elenctic, encircle, enclitic, encyclic, epicycle, fascicle, glyceric, hectical, hecticly, leucemic, leucitic, libeccio, licenced, licencee, licencer, licences, licorice, nickelic, recircle, scenical, scilicet, scolices, tricycle, unicycle. | |
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